Tatting shuttle



Patented Jan. 30, 1923.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE:

IDIS L. DUNN, F BUCK KNOB, ARKANSAS.

'IA'ITING SHUTTLE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that his LEO DUNN, residing at Buck Knob, in the county of Scott and State of Arkansas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Tatting Shuttles, of

which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a construction of tatting shuttle by which the operation of drawing the thread through the peek hole may be accomplished with greater facility than is possible under the ordinary conditions wherein the sharp point of the needle of the shuttle is employed to engage the thread, and in that connection to avoid the necessity of turning the end to the same extent in engagingthe thread and affording greater security or certainty in the engagement of the thread, and with these objects in view, the invention consists in the construction and combination of parts,

of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1, is a view of a tatting shuttle embodying the invention.

Figure 2 is a side elevation.

The body portion of the shuttle, as indicated at 10, is of the ordinary form of construction reduced at its forward end, as indicated at 11. At the tip or point of said forward end there is arranged a depending member or head 12 in the form of a disk which, while subject to variation in dimensions, may conveniently be of a diameter of about of an inch with the adjacent portion of the shank of the shuttle of a diameter of approximately 3 2 of an inch. The difference between the diameter of the disk or head and the adjacent portion of the shank is thus just suflicien't to afford a slight shoulder which enables the operator to pick 40 up or catch the thread for the purpose of drawing the loop through the peek hole without the possibility of dropping or slipping the same which is ordinarily experienced and as a consequence the operation may be effected with greaterfacility and accuracy. The disk or head, it will be noted, is disposed with its axis at right angles to the axis of the reduced forward end 11. This arrangement, while providing the shoulder above referred to, makes for the easy insertion through or the withdrawal of the head from the peek hole without the danger of its impinging or hanging on the work.

The invention having been described, what is claimed as new and useful is A tatting shuttle having a reduced extremity constituting a shank and a disk forming the terminal of said shank, the disk being of greater diameter than the shank and disposed with its axis at right angles to the shank.

In testimony'whereof he afiixes his Sig nature.

IDIS L. DUNN. 

